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Claudia Jones’ Feminist Vision of Emancipation

September 8, 2016September 8, 2016 Denise Lynn #WomenandPanAfricanismSeries, black nationalism, Claudia Jones

*This is the second post in a new blog series on Women, Gender and Pan-Africanism edited by Keisha N. Blain.

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Uncovering the Voices of Working-Class Black Women in Harlem

September 6, 2016December 30, 2016 Julie Gallagher archives, Black women, Harlem, New York, research

Today is the second day of our roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black

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“Racial Strife That’s Making Milwaukee Infamous”–Then and Now

September 3, 2016September 1, 2016 Mark Speltz NAACP, police brutality

Many Americans have read or seen the fiery aftermath following the recent police killing of Sylville Smith, but few are

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Spirit in the Dark: A New Book on the Religious History of Racial Aesthetics

September 1, 2016September 2, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi religion

This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new

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Why #BankBlack is Betraying the Black Freedom Struggle

August 30, 2016September 2, 2016 Guy Emerson Mount

Recently the #BankBlack hashtag has invaded social media outlets. Advocates believe that by transferring money and banking relationships to financial

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